"That great dust-heap called ‘history’."

"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."

"It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action."

"We do not get many glimpses of Bodley's habits of life or ways of thinking, but there is no difficulty in discerning …"

"Great is bookishness and the charm of books."

"Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the pape…"

"There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven."

"There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector."

"It can never be wrong to give pleasure."

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"